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She said while she and her son feel “extremely safe”, they are concerned for friends.

“We’re in a city so we always feel that we’re extremely safe. But we live in Beverly Hills and we have friends in the higher hills… and they don’t know if they are coming back (to their homes),” she said.

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“We’re watching these winds and these fires are jumping highways. We’re still frightened for our friends - very dear friends.”

Flames exploded before dawn yesterday on the steep slopes of Sepulveda Pass, which carries heavily travelled Interstate 405 through the Santa Monica Mountains where ridge tops are covered with expensive homes.

Family photos and a checklist prepared by Ajay Rochester in case she has to flee. (Supplied)

“Everyone is very much on edge. People are nervous and their houses are filling with ash,” Rochester said.

“I’m literally looking at the map. It’s (the fire) two streets from Paris Hilton’s house… there is a golf course and it could rip through that and it’s two streets from Paris’ house.

“It’s always been the hills and this has been the first time we’ve been remotely close.”

At one point during the call, Rochester lost electricity to her house for a few seconds after a sudden power surge.

“Our power just went out,” she said before pausing. “It’s back. I was just watching the electricity towers on the news and watch them burn up.”

Despite the potential for an impending evacuation, Rochester was calm and collected. Her concerns remain on her friends who she has spent much of the day giving advice as to how to cope in the event of an emergency.

She puts her cool nerves down to her childhood experience with floods on her family farm where they were given “six minutes” to get the cattle to higher ground.

“I think maybe my childhood would prepare me from this,” she said.

Asked what she’s packed in case she needs to evacuate her reply is simple.

“I gave everything up eight years ago,” she said. “I threw photo albums in a bag, the pets and the pet food. Everything else doesn’t matter. It means nothing to me.”

The former television host has lived in the US for almost a decade after quitting Australia to escape the negative publicity and the “lie after lie” the local media wrote about her.